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Brigade Media Advertisement flag

Hello! You added a flag to my article asking that I remove promotional content, inappropriate links, and adding a more neutral point of view. Could you further specify what I should change for the article? I was trying to maintain a neutral point of view, especially with the "Criticism" section of my article. I also thought my citations were rather credible. Please let me know. Thanks! Dannyticknor ( talk) 16:56, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

David Yang (entrepreneur)

Hello! I guess you have retrieved this reference: 1."楊誠 David Yang". 华侨华人风云录. Retrieved 9 December 2015. ( http://www.chineseoverseas.org/index.php/celebrity/show/id/60). It seems to be broken, could you please check it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MariaDR ( talk • contribs) 05:13, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

@ MariaDR: Actually, no I did not retrieve that reference. I simply moved the page to help disambiguate it. However, from what I can see, I can access the link – so I suppose it is now fixed. Caorongjin ( talk) 16:41, 11 October 2016 (UTC)

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Chinese neo-charismatic house churches

Please create the nomination page. Thanks.-- Ymblanter ( talk) 08:17, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Done! Thanks. Caorongjin ( talk) 08:26, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Bce

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Women and Religion -- Thinking

Hi @ Caorongjin: I am thinking about your suggestion. If the author of this book was "notable", it could be tempting (although not the first part about how to use the editor!). DjR ( talk) 09:33, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

@ DjR: The answer, I think, is a YES. My quick internet search resulted in:

Taylor, J. Glen (2010). "'Miss Greswell Honed our Hebrew at Oxford': Reflections on Joana J. Greswell and Her Book Grammatical Analysis of the Hebrew Psalter (1873)". In Calvert-Koyzis, Nancy; Weir, Heather (eds.). Breaking Boundaries: Female Biblical Interpreters Who Challenged the Status Quo. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing USA. pp. 85–106. ISBN 9780567384348.
Taylor, Marion Ann (2012). "Hidden Voices: Toward a More Inclusive History of the Interpretation of the Bible" (PDF). Canadian Society of Biblical Studies.

This, plus the grammar, should give you three sources – the minimum required to not be classified as a stub. I shall add that to the list… and you should sign up on the bottom of the page. Caorongjin ( talk) 10:04, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

/info/en/?search=Education_Program:University_of_Edinburgh/Selected_Themes_in_World_Christianity_(Autumn_2016)

Hi Alexander, In reference to your current course, what tool did you use to set up the course page? User:Helaine (Wiki Ed) has deleted my page and suggested I use the Programs and Events dashboard. best, Brian AugusteBlanqui ( talk) 20:31, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

@ AugusteBlanqui: Thanks for your note. I am using the Education Program extension. However, my understanding is that this is getting phased out. What I have been told is that WikiEdu is meant for institutions in the US or Canada, and is actually a spin-off from Wikimedia. If you are wanting to use a similar tool for other institutions (like myself, in the future), you should look into the dashboard hosted by the Wikipedia Education Program. Perhaps Stinglehammer can help give some guidance here? — Caorongjin ( talk) 08:29, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

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Minor edits

Some of the edits you are marking as minor are definitely not minor edits: you might want to review WP:MINOR. Regards, Jonathan A Jones ( talk) 12:26, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. Will keep this in the mind for the future. – Caorongjin ( talk) 12:27, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

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Decline issue

Please, note I have added a couple of reliable sources to my new article "Bun Turks". Unfortunately, I could not delete the declined citations, as I am new to Wikipedia. I'll do it as soon as I learn how to cope with this task. In the meantime, kindly re-submitting the article.

Best,

Ramin Lev — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ramin lev ( talk • contribs) 00:38, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Ramin lev for the note. I have helped to cleanup some of those. However, those references are all pointing to two lines and need to have more content to be tied to. The significance of the article is, hence, not well attested for. It would be worthwhile to look at WP:ARTDEV and WP:BETTER and expand your article to at least 300 words. It is also highly discouraged to use too many long quotes. -- Caorongjin ( talk) 09:03, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

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Thanks for this clarification here. That makes sense and I will try to do that in the future. King regards, Caorongjin ( talk) 07:34, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

Draft:SharpSpring, Inc.

I have suppressed your decline of this AFC submission due to WP:OUTING concerns. You can decline a submission without revealing or speculating about the identity of the author. Please don't do that again. Thanks. Katie^talk 22:59, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

KrakatoaKatie, thanks for that. WP:OUTING was not something I was aware of. However, the contributions of the user account includes a previous username that explicitly states the identity of the author and direct affiliation with the article's subject. Hence, this was something voluntarily posted on Wikipedia about the identity of the author. Am I mistaken on this? -- Caorongjin ( talk) 23:05, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Draft:Rights of Persons with Disability Act 2016

I have edited the content. PLease see as its an important article. तत्स॑वि॒तुर्वरे॑ण्य॒म् ( talk) 12:10, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion declined: Draft:Westcourt Capital Corporation

Hello Caorongjin. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Draft:Westcourt Capital Corporation, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Not unambiguously promotional. Thank you. TonyBallioni ( talk) 23:17, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Wang Yi (pastor)

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Hi @ DGG:, I’ve added a few more references to highlight the notability of the subject. A quick Internet search for “Wang Yi pastor” will also highlight this point. — Caorongjin ( talk) 10:05, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

you've added enough to show possible notability , but the advocacy problem remains. Since you are not a promotional editor, the article is fixable, and therefore I removed the section expounding his ideas. That material belongs on his website--the section on his 95 theses makes his views clear enough. It is necessary to be very careful in dealing with people (and organizations and movements) with which one is sympathetic. NPOV is more difficult than it would first appear. DGG ( talk ) 03:27, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

@ DGG:, please clarify what you mean by WP:Advocacy. Sections expounding on a person's ideas are found in all sorts of WP:BLP (e.g., Karl Barth, Wang Mingdao, etc.) and simply deleting them without flagging what is specifically wrong with them is not very helpful. As is stated in my userpage, I am an WP:EXPERT in the field and have written scholarly material related to him (and if you read my writings, I disagree with him). But as seen in the version history of this content, which originated in another page, references to my own works are not WP:SELFCITE (they were part of a WP:ASSIGN that was submitted by a student without my guidance). Happy to add further references, but not sure that is what you are asking for. -- Caorongjin ( talk) 16:51, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

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No copyright violations in Timothy Lin article

Dear Caorongjin:

I don't think there has been any copyright violation in the Timothy Lin article. I got the titles of his articles (in the list) from physical copies provided to me by a man who was a disciple of Timothy Lin for 24 years and got his ministerial training from Dr. Lin. No copyright violation was intended. Then I put in a simple link to the website so that people could see those articles if they wanted them. There is no text or documentary material from the bsmi website.

Regarding Dr. Lin's biography itself, including obituary-type material, there was no use of or borrowing from the Los Angeles Times obituary. The information came from this ministerial disciple and also from Dr. Lin's son. In fact I think a lot of the Los Angeles Times obituary was in fact provided to the newspaper by these same two people. There is a link to that obituary in the Wikipedia article. But there never was any borrowing from the Los Angeles Times; instead the time order and priority was in the other direction.

Hope these things are helpful. I don't think any copyright violation was committed.

Sincerely,

EMarley — Preceding unsigned comment added by EMarley ( talk • contribs) 18:06, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

Your submission at Articles for creation: Patterson School of Accountancy (December 20)

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Regarding the Timothy Lin article, I don't know how to do this better. Regarding the titles of Dr. Lin's papers, I saw the papers myself and simply copied the titles. Except for writing the title names (Dr. Lin did that himself) I am the source of that. Regarding the obituary like material, I had conversations in person and on the telephone with Dr. Lin's son and his ministerial disciple, and that's where I got the information. I typed on my own computer what I heard from them. I submitted that material to the Los Angeles Times and also put it in his Wikipedia article (so I am the source of that). Hope this helps.

By the way, I am going to Africa for two weeks, from Dec. 26 to Jan. 10, and may be partly or completely out of communication there. EMarley — Preceding unsigned comment added by EMarley ( talk • contribs) 16:10, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

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21:26:18, 9 January 2018 review of submission by Golden tamarin

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- Draft:BlueVine ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Thanks for the review Caorongjin, I've expanded the page and included several things that make BlueVine notable. It's was one of the first cloud-based factors and is still one of the largest disrupters in the space -- I've linked to the others' Wikipedia pages within this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Golden tamarin ( talk • contribs) 21:26, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Timothy Lin

Dear Caorongjin,

Concerning the Timothy Lin article, I have contacted the owner of the bsmi website and he has given permission for the titles of the twenty-four articles and the link to his website to be included in the Timothy Lin Wikipedia article. Please look at the Timothy Lin talk page for more details. Hope this is helpful. I have tried to be honest and honorable.

Sincerely, EMarley — Preceding unsigned comment added by EMarley ( talk • contribs) 16:17, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion contested: Draft:Taimoor Salahuddin Aka Mooroo

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Request on 22:41:58, 27 January 2018 for assistance on AfC submission by FierceDemon

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Thank you for taking the time to review the page. This was my first page so I guess its natural to make mistakes.

I agree with your comments, it sounds like an advertisement and not a serious article since there are no references.

However, there are in fact no references of note to add to the article. The tool has some 100s of downloads on the site, that is why I though it could worthy of a wikipedia article.

To work around this issue, would it be enough to add words like "the Pharos author claims that is..." (being the keyword "claims")?

Thank you and kind regards

FierceDemon ( talk) 22:41, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

Simply, you cannot have an article with no references or only with a single reference to the SourceForge page. Perhaps these can be some starting points:

-- Caorongjin ( talk) 22:50, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

11:17:58, 30 January 2018 review of submission by The Hobbit 30

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- Draft:Antoine Fafard ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

I have now added a number of references - possibly even too many? - to well known sources in the Jazz fusion and Progressive rock arena. The intent is to show the growing presence of the artist in the global scene, as well as the high profile collaborations. The high number of reviews should attest to the good reception that the artist is receiving for his production, which is published by all the major media outlets. Hope this is going the right direction. The Hobbit 30 ( talk) 11:17, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

00:52:44, 21 February 2018 review of submission by The Hobbit 30

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- Draft:Antoine Fafard ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Hi,

Thanks for taking the time to review the submission again.

I think I am going to need a bit more help to understand exactly how to fix this submission.

On the subject of notability:

Many of the citations point to articles that show the presence of the artist across geographies (Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, UK, Canada, Hungary, Greece).
A good proportion of the references provided are reviews of Fafard's work from well-respected and specialised sources:
- Citation 21: Downbeat - Jazz, Blues & Beyond, published since 1934
- Citation 14: London Jazz News
Fafard is mentioned in some of Wikipedia's own pages (the links are in the article):

True, there are some citations that are more or less directly pointing to Fafard's controlled content, but these are not intended to demonstrate notability, as much as provide links to the content mentioned.

Could you please be more explicit as to what citations should be removed and what is wrong with the others?

I am clearly doing the community a disservice if I can't show this artist’s notability despite his significant production (13 CD/DVD), important collaborations with other musicians (certainly more notable in many cases), and the very positive reception from countless critics around the world.

Thank you

The Hobbit 30 ( talk) 00:52, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

I have stripped out all the citations which are used for referencing that he indeed played on an album. This can be handled by a simple {{Authority control}} template, which I have added. What remains are 9 citations – a number of which are WP:Primary source and are not all that useful and Wikipedia itself should not be a source. Please consult the guidance on WP:MUSICBIO on what needs to be demonstrated as notable, because more has to be said than he has been a musician for a number of bands and produced a number of albums (which is basically what the article says). -- Caorongjin ( talk) 22:51, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

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A backlog drive will take place from 10 through 20 June. Check out our talk page at WT:NPR for more details. NOTE: It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing. Despite our goal of reducing the backlog as much as possible, please do not rush while reviewing.

Editathons

There will be a large increase in the number of editathons in June. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the ' move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

Paid editing - new policy

Now that ACTRIAL is ACREQ, please be sure to look for tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. There is a new global WMF policy that requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

Subject-specific notability guidelines

The box at the right contains each of the subject-specific notability guidelines, please review any that are relevant BEFORE nominating an article for deletion.
Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves with the new version of the notability guidelines for organisations and companies.

Not English

A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, tag as required, then move to draft if they do have potential.

News

Development is underway by the WMF on upgrades to the New Pages Feed, in particular ORES features that will help to identify COPYVIOs, and more granular options for selecting articles to review.
The next issue of The Signpost has been published. The newspaper is one of the best ways to stay up to date with news and new developments. between our newsletters.

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NPP Backlog Elimination Drive

Hello Caorongjin, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel: there are currently 2900 unreviewed articles, and 4000 unreviewed redirects.

Announcing the Backlog Elimination Drive!

As a final push, we have decided to run a backlog elimination drive from the 20th to the 30th of June.
Reviewers who review at least 50 articles or redirects will receive a Special Edition NPP Barnstar: . Those who review 100, 250, 500, or 1000 pages will also receive tiered awards: , , , .
Please do not be hasty, take your time and fully review each page. It is extremely important that we focus on quality reviewing.

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Phil Parshall

why was this deleted? Your edit summary says
Remove unnecessary footnotes,
but you also deleted text:
He is the author of several books on Christianity, missionary work and Muslims and has written for Christianity Today^[1] and Evangelical Missions Quarterly.^[2]-- BoogaLouie ( talk) 21:21, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

^ Parshall, Phil (16 January 2013). "How Much Muslim Context Is Too Much for the Gospel?". Christianity Today. Retrieved 3 May 2018. {{ cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= ( help)
^ article by Parshall, cited in this article Lausanne Global Analysis. "Highly Contextualized Missions: Surveying the Global Conversation". Retrieved 7 May 2018.

An edit summary is not a comprehensive summary. I removed it because it appeared to be repeating something that was already quite evident. However, leaving it is not highly problematic (though further citations to primary source material is not helpful for WP:N), and I have returned most of that line. Furthermore, I have moved the Lausanne citation to the WP:Lead. I hope that works for you.-- Caorongjin ( talk) 21:36, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

thank you -- 68.168.167.153 ( talk) 00:42, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

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NPP Backlog Drive Appreciation

		Special Edition New Page Patroller's Barnstar
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NPR Newsletter No.12 30 July 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months. ( Purge)

Hello Caorongjin, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

June backlog drive

Overall the June backlog drive was a success, reducing the last 3,000 or so to below 500. However, as expected, 90% of the patrolling was done by less than 10% of reviewers.
Since the drive closed, the backlog has begun to rise sharply again and is back up to nearly 1,400 already. Please help reduce this total and keep it from raising further by reviewing some articles each day.

New technology, new rules

New features are shortly going to be added to the Special:NewPagesFeed which include a list of drafts for review, OTRS flags for COPYVIO, and more granular filter preferences. More details can be found at this page.
Probationary permissions: Now that PERM has been configured to allow expiry dates to all minor user rights, new NPR flag holders may sometimes be limited in the first instance to 6 months during which their work will be assessed for both quality and quantity of their reviews. This will allow admins to accord the right in borderline cases rather than make a flat out rejection.
Current reviewers who have had the flag for longer than 6 months but have not used the permissions since they were granted will have the flag removed, but may still request to have it granted again in the future, subject to the same probationary period, if they wish to become an active reviewer.

Editathons

Editathons will continue through August. Please be gentle with new pages that obviously come from good faith participants, especially articles from developing economies and ones about female subjects. Consider using the ' move to draft' tool rather than bluntly tagging articles that may have potential but which cannot yet reside in mainspace.

The Signpost

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NPR Newsletter No.13 18 September 2018

Hello Caorongjin, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

The New Page Feed currently has 2700 unreviewed articles, up from just 500 at the start of July. For a while we were falling behind by an average of about 40 articles per day, but we have stabilised more recently. Please review some articles from the back of the queue if you can (Sort by: 'Oldest' at Special:NewPagesFeed), as we are very close to having articles older than one month.

Project news

The New Page Feed now has a new "Articles for Creation" option which will show drafts instead of articles in the feed, this shouldn't impact NPP activities and is part of the WMF's AfC Improvement Project.

As part of this project, the feed will have some larger updates to functionality next month. Specifically, ORES predictions will be built in, which will automatically flag articles for potential issues such as vandalism or spam. Copyright violation detection will also be added to the new page feed. See the projects's talk page for more info.

There are a number of coordination tasks for New Page Patrol that could use some help from experienced reviewers. See Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Coordination#Coordinator tasks for more info to see if you can help out.

Other

A new summary page of reliable sources has been created; Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources/Perennial sources, which summarizes existing RfCs or RSN discussions about regularly used sources.

Moving to Draft and Page Mover

Some unsuitable new articles can be best reviewed by moving them to the draft space, but reviewers need to do this carefully and sparingly. It is most useful for topics that look like they might have promise, but where the article as written would be unlikely to survive AfD. If the article can be easily fixed, or if the only issue is a lack of sourcing that is easily accessible, tagging or adding sources yourself is preferable. If sources do not appear to be available and the topic does not appear to be notable, tagging for deletion is preferable (PROD/AfD/CSD as appropriate). See additional guidance at WP:DRAFTIFY.
If the user moves the draft back to mainspace, or recreates it in mainspace, please do not re-draftify the article (although swapping it to maintain the page history may be advisable in the case of copy-paste moves). AfC is optional except for editors with a clear conflict of interest.
Articles that have been created in contravention of our paid-editing-requirements or written from a blatant NPOV perspective, or by authors with a clear COI might also be draftified at discretion.
The best tool for draftification is User:Evad37/MoveToDraft.js^(
info). Kindly adapt the text in the dialogue-pop-up as necessary (the default can also be changed like this). Note that if you do not have the Page Mover userright, the redirect from main will be automatically tagged as CSD R2, but in some cases it might be better to make this a redirect to a different page instead.
The Page Mover userright can be useful for New Page Reviewers; occasionally page swapping is needed during NPR activities, and it helps avoid excessive R2 nominations which must be processed by admins. Note that the Page Mover userright has higher requirements than the NPR userright, and is generally given to users active at Requested Moves. Only reviewers who are very experienced and are also very active reviewers are likely to be granted it solely for NPP activities.

List of other useful scripts for New Page Reviewing

Twinkle provides a lot of the same functionality as the page curation tools, and some reviewers prefer to use the Twinkle tools for some/all tasks. It can be activated simply in the gadgets section of 'preferences'. There are also a lot of options available at the Twinkle preferences panel after you install the gadget.
In terms of other gadgets for NPR, HotCat is worth turning on. It allows you to easily add, remove, and change categories on a page, with name suggestions.
MoreMenu also adds a bunch of very useful links for diagnosing and fixing page issues.
User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js^(
info): Installing scripts doesn't have to be complicated. Go to your common.js and copy importScript( 'User:Equazcion/ScriptInstaller.js' ); into an empty line, now you can install all other scripts with the click of a button from the script page! (Note you need to be at the ".js" page for the script for the install button to appear, not the information page)
User:TheJosh/Scripts/NewPagePatrol.js^(
info): Creates a scrolling new pages list at the left side of the page. You can change the number of pages shown by adding the following to the next line on your common.js page (immediately after the line importing this script): npp_num_pages=20; (Recommended 20, but you can use any number from 1 to 50).
User:Primefac/revdel.js^(
info): Is requesting revdel complicated and time consuming? This script helps simplify the process. Just have the Copyvio source URL and go to the history page and collect your diff IDs and you can drop them into the script Popups and it will create a revdel request for you.
User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js^(
info): Creates a "Page Curation" link to Special:NewPagesFeed up near your sandbox link.
User:Writ Keeper/Scripts/deletionFinder.js: Creates links next to the title of each page which show up if it has been previously deleted or nominated for deletion.
User:Evad37/rater.js^(
info): A fantastic tool for adding WikiProject templates to article talk pages. If you add: rater_autostartNamespaces = 0; to the next line on your common.js, the prompt will pop up automatically if a page has no Wikiproject templates on the talk page (note: this can be a bit annoying if you review redirects or dab pages commonly).

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NPR Newsletter No.14 21 October 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

Hello Caorongjin, thank you for your work reviewing New Pages!

Backlog

As of 21 October 2018^[update], there are 3650 unreviewed articles and the backlog now stretches back 51 days.

Community Wishlist Proposal

There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding the drafting of a Community Wishlist Proposal for the purpose of requesting bug fixes and missing/useful features to be added to the New Page Feed and Curation Toolbar.
Please join the conversation as we only have until 29 October to draft this proposal!

Project updates

ORES predictions are now built-in to the feed. These automatically predict the class of an article as well as whether it may be spam, vandalism, or an attack page, and can be filtered by these criteria now allowing reviewers to better target articles that they prefer to review.
There are now tools being tested to automatically detect copyright violations in the feed. This detector may not be accurate all the time, though, so it shouldn't be relied on 100% and will only start working on new revisions to pages, not older pages in the backlog.

New scripts

User:Enterprisey/cv-revdel.js^(
info) — A new script created for quickly placing {{ copyvio-revdel}} on a page.

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NPR Newsletter No.15 16 November 2018

Chart of the New Pages Patrol backlog for the past 6 months.

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Community Wishlist Survey – NPP needs you – Vote NOW

Community Wishlist Voting takes place 16 to 30 November for the Page Curation and New Pages Feed improvements, and other software requests. The NPP community is hoping for a good turnout in support of the requests to Santa for the tools we need. This is very important as we have been asking the Foundation for these upgrades for 4 years.

If this proposal does not make it into the top ten, it is likely that the tools will be given no support at all for the foreseeable future. So please put in a vote today.

We are counting on significant support not only from our own ranks, but from everyone who is concerned with maintaining a Wikipedia that is free of vandalism, promotion, flagrant financial exploitation and other pollution.

With all 650 reviewers voting for these urgently needed improvements, our requests would be unlikely to fail. See also The Signpost Special report: 'NPP: This could be heaven or this could be hell for new users – and for the reviewers', and if you are not sure what the wish list is all about, take a sneak peek at an article in this month's upcoming issue of The Signpost which unfortunately due to staff holidays and an impending US holiday will probably not be published until after voting has closed.

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NPR Newsletter No.16 15 December 2018

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Reviewer of the Year

This year's award for the Reviewer of the Year goes to Onel5969. Around on Wikipedia since 2011, their staggering number of 26,554 reviews over the past twelve months makes them, together with an additional total of 275,285 edits, one of Wikipedia's most prolific users.

Thanks are also extended for their work to JTtheOG (15,059 reviews), Boleyn (12,760 reviews), Cwmhiraeth (9,001 reviews), Semmendinger (8,440 reviews), PRehse (8,092 reviews), Arthistorian1977 (5,306 reviews), Abishe (4,153 reviews), Barkeep49 (4,016 reviews), and Elmidae (3,615 reviews).
Cwmhiraeth, Semmendinger, Barkeep49, and Elmidae have been New Page Reviewers for less than a year — Barkeep49 for only seven months, while Boleyn, with an edit count of 250,000 since she joined Wikipedia in 2008, has been a bastion of New Page Patrol for many years.

Speedy deletion declined: Bill King (rugby league)

Hello Caorongjin. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Bill King (rugby league), a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Page is not a disambiguation page, or disambiguates two or more extant pages. Thank you. — JJMC89 ( T· C) 22:37, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

NPR Newsletter No.17

Hello Caorongjin,

News

The WMF has announced that Google Translate is now available for translating articles through the content translation tool. This may result in an increase in machine translated articles in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to use the {{ rough translation}} tag and gently remind (or inform) editors that translations from other language Wikipedia pages still require attribution per WP:TFOLWP.

Discussions of interest

Two elements of CSD G6 have been split into their own criteria: R4 for redirects in the "File:" namespace with the same name as a file or redirect at Wikimedia Commons ( Discussion), and G14 for disambiguation pages which disambiguate zero pages, or have "(disambiguation)" in the title but disambiguate a single page ( Discussion).
{{ db-blankdraft}} was merged into G13 ( Discussion)
A discussion recently closed with no consensus on whether to create a subject-specific notability guideline for theatrical plays.
There is an ongoing discussion on a proposal to create subject-specific notability guidelines for chemicals and organism taxa.

Reminders

NPR is not a binary keep / delete process. In many cases a redirect may be appropriate. The deletion policy and its associated guideline clearly emphasise that not all unsuitable articles must be deleted. Redirects are not contentious. See a classic example of the templates to use. More templates are listed at the R template index. Reviewers who are not aware, do please take this into consideration before PROD, CSD, and especially AfD because not even all admins are aware of such policies, and many NAC do not have a full knowledge of them.

NPP Tools Report

Superlinks – allows you to check an article's history, logs, talk page, NPP flowchart (on unpatrolled pages) and more without navigating away from the article itself.
copyvio-check – automatically checks the copyvio percentage of new pages in the background and displays this info with a link to the report in the 'info' panel of the Page curation toolbar.
The NPP flowchart now has clickable hyperlinks.

Six Month Queue Data: Today – Low – 2393 High – 4828
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NPR Newsletter No.18

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WMF at work on NPP Improvements

Niharika Kohli, a product manager for the growth team, announced that work is underway in implementing improvements to New Page Patrol as part of the 2019 Community Wishlist and suggests all who are interested watch the project page on meta. Two requested improvements have already been completed. These are:

Allow filtering by no citations in page curation
Not having CSD and PRODs automatically marked as reviewed, reflecting current consensus among reviewers and current Twinkle functionality.

Reliable Sources for NPP

Rosguill has been compiling a list of reliable sources across countries and industries that can be used by new page patrollers to help judge whether an article topic is notable or not. At this point further discussion is needed about if and how this list should be used. Please consider joining the discussion about how this potentially valuable resource should be developed and used.

Backlog drive coming soon

Look for information on the an upcoming backlog drive in our next newsletter. If you'd like to help plan this drive, join in the discussion on the New Page Patrol talk page.

News

Following a request for comment, the subject-specific notability guideline for pornographic actors and models ( WP:PORNBIO) was removed; in its place, editors should consult WP:ENT and WP:GNG.

Discussions of interest

A request for bot approval for a bot to patrol two kinds of redirects
There has been a lot discussion about Notability of Academics
What, if anything, would a SNG for Softball look like

Six Month Queue Data: Today – 7242 Low – 2393 High – 7250

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New Page Review newsletter July-August 2019

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WMF at work on NPP Improvements

More new features are being added to the feed, including the important red alert for previously deleted pages. This will only work if it is selected in your filters. Best is to 'select all'. Do take a moment to check out all the new features if you have not already done so. If anything is not working as it should, please let us know at NPR. There is now also a live queue of AfC submissions in the New Pages Feed. Feel free to review AfCs, but bear in mind that NPP is an official process and policy and is more important.

QUALITY of REVIEWING

Articles are still not always being checked thoroughly enough. If you are not sure what to do, leave the article for a more experienced reviewer. Please be on the alert for any incongruities in patrolling and help your colleagues where possible; report patrollers and autopatrolled article creators who are ostensibly undeclared paid editors. The displayed ORES alerts offer a greater 'at-a-glance' overview, but the new challenges in detecting unwanted new content and sub-standard reviewing do not necessarily make patrolling any easier, nevertheless the work may have a renewed interest factor of a different kind. A vibrant community of reviewers is always ready to help at NPR.

Backlog

The backlog is still far too high at between 7,000 and 8,000. Of around 700 user rights holders, 80% of the reviewing is being done by just TWO users. In the light of more and more subtle advertising and undeclared paid editing, New Page Reviewing is becoming more critical than ever.

Move to draft

NPR is triage, it is not a clean up clinic. This move feature is not limited to bios so you may have to slightly re-edit the text in the template before you save the move. Anything that is not fit for mainspace but which might have some promise can be draftified - particularly very poor English and machine and other low quality translations.

Notifying users

Remember to use the message feature if you are just tagging an article for maintenance rather than deletion. Otherwise articles are likely to remain perma-tagged. Many creators are SPA and have no intention of returning to Wikipedia. Use the feature too for leaving a friendly note note for the author of a first article you found well made or interesting. Many have told us they find such comments particularly welcoming and encouraging.

PERM

Admins are now taking advantage of the new time-limited user rights feature. If you have recently been accorded NPR, do check your user rights to see if this affects you. Depending on your user account preferences, you may receive automated notifications of your rights changes. Requests for permissions are not mini-RfAs. Helpful comments are welcome if absolutely necessary, but the bot does a lot of the work and the final decision is reserved for admins who do thorough research anyway.

Other news

School and academic holidays will begin soon in various places around the Western world. Be on the lookout for the usual increase in hoax, attack, and other junk pages.

Our next newsletter might be announcing details of a possible election for co-ordinators of NPR. If you think you have what it takes to micro manage NPR, take a look at New Page Review Coordinators - it's a job that requires a lot of time and dedication.

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New Page Review newsletter September-October 2019

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Backlog

Instead of reaching a magic 300 as it once did last year, the backlog approaching 6,000 is still far too high. An effort is also needed to ensure that older unsuitable older pages at the back of the queue do not get automatically indexed for Google.

Coordinator

A proposal is taking place here to confirm a nominated user as Coordinator of NPR.

This month's refresher course

Why I Hate Speedy Deleters, a 2008 essay by long since retired Ballonman, is still as valid today. Those of us who patrol large numbers of new pages can be forgiven for making the occasional mistake while others can learn from their 'beginner' errors. Worth reading.

Deletion tags

Do bear in mind that articles in the feed showing the trash can icon (you will need to have 'Nominated for deletion' enabled for this in your filters) may have been tagged by inexperienced or non NPR rights holders using Twinkle. They require your further verification.

Paid editing

Please be sure to look for the tell-tale signs of undisclosed paid editing. Contact the creator if appropriate, and submit the issue to WP:COIN if necessary. WMF policy requires paid editors to connect to their adverts.

Subject-specific notability guidelines' (SNG). Alternatives to deletion

Reviewers are requested to familiarise themselves once more with notability guidelines for organisations and companies.
Blank-and-Redirect is a solution anchored in policy. Please consider this alternative before PRODing or CSD. Note however, that users will often revert or usurp redirects to re-create deleted articles. Do regularly patrol the redirects in the feed.

Not English

A common issue: Pages not in English or poor, unattributed machine translations should not reside in main space even if they are stubs. Please ensure you are familiar with WP:NPPNE. Check in Google for the language and content, and if they do have potential, tag as required, then move to draft. Modify the text of the template as appropriate before sending it.

Tools

Regular reviewers will appreciate the most recent enhancements to the New Pages Feed and features in the Curation tool, and there are still more to come. Due to the wealth of information now displayed by ORES, reviewers are strongly encouraged to use the system now rather than Twinkle; it will also correctly populate the logs.

Stub sorting, by SD0001: A new script is available for adding/removing stub tags. See User:SD0001/StubSorter.js, It features a simple HotCat-style dynamic search field. Many of the reviewers who are using it are finding it an improvement upon other available tools.

Assessment: The script at User:Evad37/rater makes the addition of Wikiproject templates extremely easy. New page creators rarely do this. Reviewers are not obliged to make these edits but they only take a few seconds. They can use the Curation message system to let the creator know what they have done.

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New Page Review newsletter November 2019

Hello Caorongjin,

This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.

Getting the queue to 0

There are now 809 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox.
Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards.

Coordinator

Admin Barkeep49 has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.

This month's refresher course

Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.

Tools

It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.

Reviewer Feedback

Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13.

Second set of eyes

Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
Do be sure to have our talk page on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.

Arbitration Committee

The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights.

Community Wish list

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New Page Review newsletter December 2019

Reviewer of the Year

This year's Reviewer of the Year is Rosguill. Having gotten the reviewer PERM in August 2018, they have been a regular reviewer of articles and redirects, been an active participant in the NPP community, and has been the driving force for the emerging NPP Source Guide that will help reviewers better evaluate sourcing and notability in many countries for which it has historically been difficult.

Special commendation again goes to Onel5969 who ends the year as one of our most prolific reviewers for the second consecutive year. Thanks also to Boleyn and JTtheOG who have been in the top 5 for the last two years as well.

Several newer editors have done a lot of work with CAPTAIN MEDUSA and DannyS712 (who has also written bots which have patrolled thousands of redirects) being new reviewers since this time last year.

Thanks to them and to everyone reading this who has participated in New Page Patrol this year.

Top 10 Reviewers over the last 365 days
Rank	Username	Num reviews	Log
1	Rosguill ( talk)	47,395	Patrol Page Curation
2	Onel5969 ( talk)	41,883	Patrol Page Curation
3	JTtheOG ( talk)	11,493	Patrol Page Curation
4	Arthistorian1977 ( talk)	5,562	Patrol Page Curation
5	DannyS712 ( talk)	4,866	Patrol Page Curation
6	CAPTAIN MEDUSA ( talk)	3,995	Patrol Page Curation
7	DragonflySixtyseven ( talk)	3,812	Patrol Page Curation
8	Boleyn ( talk)	3,655	Patrol Page Curation
9	Ymblanter ( talk)	3,553	Patrol Page Curation
10	Cwmhiraeth ( talk)	3,522	Patrol Page Curation

(The top 100 reviewers of the year can be found here)

Redirect autopatrol

A recent Request for Comment on creating a new redirect autopatrol pseduo-permission was closed early. New Page Reviewers are now able to nominate editors who have an established track record creating uncontroversial redirects. At the individual discretion of any administrator or after 24 hours and a consensus of at least 3 New Page Reviewers an editor may be added to a list of users whose redirects will be patrolled automatically by DannyS712 bot III.

Source Guide Discussion

Set to launch early in the new year is our first New Page Patrol Source Guide discussion. These discussions are designed to solicit input on sources in places and topic areas that might otherwise be harder for reviewers to evaluate. The hope is that this will allow us to improve the accuracy of our patrols for articles using these sources (and/or give us places to perform a WP:BEFORE prior to nominating for deletion). Please watch the New Page Patrol talk page for more information.

This month's refresher course

While New Page Reviewers are an experienced set of editors, we all benefit from an occasional review. This month consider refreshing yourself on Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features). Also consider how we can take the time for quality in this area. For instance, sources to verify human settlements, which are presumed notable, can often be found in seconds. This lets us avoid the (ugly) 'Needs more refs' tag.

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New Page Reviewer newsletter February 2020

Hello Caorongjin,

Source Guide Discussion

The first NPP source guide discussion is now underway. It covers a wide range of sources in Ghana with the goal of providing more guidance to reviewers about sources they might see when reviewing pages. Hopefully, new page reviewers will join others interested in reliable sources and those with expertise in these sources to make the discussion a success.

Redirects

New to NPP? Looking to try something a little different? Consider patrolling some redirects. Redirects are relatively easy to review, can be found easily through the New Pages Feed. You can find more information about how to patrol redirects at WP:RPATROL.

Discussions and Resources

There is an ongoing discussion around changing notifications for new editors who attempt to write articles.
A recent discussion of whether Michelin starred restraunts are notable was archived without closure.
A resource page with links pertinent for reviewers was created this month.
A proposal to increase the scope of G5 was withdrawn.

Refresher

Geographic regions, areas and places generally do not need general notability guideline type sourcing. When evaluating whether an article meets this notability guideline please also consider whether it might actually be a form of WP:SPAM for a development project (e.g. PR for a large luxury residential development) and not actually covered by the guideline.

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Category:Chinese-American biblical scholars has been nominated for discussion

Category:Chinese-American biblical scholars, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. TM 04:12, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Category:Japanese-American biblical scholars has been nominated for discussion

Category:Japanese-American biblical scholars, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. TM 04:13, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Category:Korean-American biblical scholars has been nominated for discussion

Category:Korean-American biblical scholars, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. TM 04:13, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Declined draft

Hello. The draft article about Junaid Khan that you have recently declined had already been merged in its entirety with one of the constituent (but empty) articles in the disambiguation page. It is a fully fledged article now. Thanks though. ( talk) 03:56, 7 March 2020 )

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